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Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

Rupert Murdoch

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

Rupert Murdoch

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Rupert Murdoch

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

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Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

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The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

Rupert Murdoch

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

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Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

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My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

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What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

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Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

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I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

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I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

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Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

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If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

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Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

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We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

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I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

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I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

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It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

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Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

Rupert Murdoch

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

Rupert Murdoch

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Rupert Murdoch

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

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My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

Rupert Murdoch

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

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I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

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I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

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I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

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One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

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Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.

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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

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If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

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I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.

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At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.

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Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

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